The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-03


tains, and all the hills. and all the forests,
and all the metals Of the earth, and all
the growths of the universe should not
be surprised if he could, if he had a
mind to, make few harps and trumpets
and organs.
Grand old Haydn, sick and worn out,
was carried for the last time into the
music hall, and there he heard his own
oratorio of THE Creation. History
says that as the orchestra came to that
famous passage, ''Let There be Light"
the whole audience rose and cheered, and
Haydn waved his hand toward heaven
and said: 1T comes from there. " Over
whelmed with his own music, he was
carried out in his chair, and as he came
to the door he spread his hand toward
the orchestra as in benediction. Haydn
was right when he waved his hand toward
heaven and said: 1T comes from there. "
Music was born in heaven and it will
ever have its highest throne in heaven;
and / want you to understand that our
departed friends who were passiOnatelv
fond of music here, are now at the head
quarters Of harmony. / think that the
grand old church tunes that died when
your grandfathers died have gone with
them to heaven.
Again, / remark that those of our de-
parted Christian friends who in this
world had very strong military spirit are
now in armies celestial and out on blood
less battle There are hundreds of peo-
pie born soldiers. They can nothelp it.
They belong to regiments in time Of
peace They cannot hear drum or fife
without trying to keep step to the music
They are Christians, and when they fight
they fight on the right side. Now when
these, our Christian friends who had
natural and powerful military spirit, en-
tered heaven, they entered the celestial
army.
The door of heaven hardly opens but
you hear a military demonstration.
David cried out: The chariots of God
are 10000" Elisha saw the mountains
filed with celestial cavalry. st. John
said: 1.-The armies which are in heaven
followed him on white horses. Now,
when those who had the military spirit
on earth sanctified entered glory, sup
pose they right away enlisted in some
heavenly campaign-they volunteered
right away. There must needs be In
heaven soldiers with a soldierly spirit.
There are grand parade days when the
king reviews the troops, There must be
armed escort sent out 10 bring up from
earth to heaven those who were more
than conquerors. There must be cru
sades ever being fitted out for some part
of Gods dominion-battles, bloodless,
groanless, painless. Angels of evil to be
fought down and fought back. Other
rebellious worlds to be conquered.
Worlds to be put to the torch. Worlds
to be saved. Worlds to be demolished.
Worlds to be sunk. Worlds to be hoisted.
Beside that, in our own world there
ore battles for the right and against the
wrong where we must have the heavenly
military. That is what keeps us Chris
tan reformers so buoyant. So few good
men against so many bad men, so few
churches against SO many grog shops,
so few pure printing presses against SO
many polluted printing presses, and yet
we are buoyant and courageous, because
while we know that the armies of evil in
the world are larger in numbers than the
army of the truth, there are celestial
cohorts in the air fighting on our side.
have not so much faith in the army
on the ground as l have in the army In
the air. o, God! open our eyes that we
may see them. The military spirits that
went up from earth to join the military
spirits before the throne-Joshua and
Caleb and Gideon and David and Samson
and the hundreds of Christian warriors
who on earth fought with fleshly arm,
and now having gone up ON high are
L. &c
fight among the invisibles. Yonder they
are-coming, coming. Did you not hear
them as they swept by?
But what are our mathematical friends
to do in the next world? They found
their Joy and their delight in mathe-
matics. There was more poetry for them
in Euclid than in John Milton. They
We're as passionately fond of mathematics
as Plato, who wrote over his door: let
no one enter here who is not acquainted
with geometry" What are they doing
now? They are busy with figures yet.
No place in all the universe like heaven
for figures. Numbers infinite, distances
infinite, calculations infinite. The didac-
tic DR.. Dick said he really thought that
the redeemed in heaven spent some of
their time with the higher branches of
mathematics.
Some of our transferred and trans
ported metaphysicians-wha are they
doing now? Studying the human mind,
only under better circumstances than
they used to study it. They used to study
the mind sheathed in the dull human
body. Now the spirit unsheathed-n
they are studying the sword outside the
scabbard. Have you any doubt about
what Sir William Hamilton is doing in
heaven, or what Jonathan Edwards is
doing in heaven, or the multitude on
earth who had passion for metaphysics
sanctified by the grace of God? No diff
Guilty in guessing. Metaphysics, glorious
metaphysics, everlasting metaphysics.
What are our departed Christian
friends who are explorers doing
now? Exploring yet, but with
lightning locomotion, with vision mi
croscopic and telescope at the same
time. \ continent at glance. A world
in a second. A planetary system in a
day. Christian John Franklin no more
in disabled 'Erebus'' pushing toward
the North Pole, Christian De Long no
more trying to free blockaded Jeanette
from the ice, Christian Livingstone no
more amid African malarias trying to
make revelation of dark continent; but
all of them in the twinkling of an eye
taking in that which was unapproacha-
bic. Mont Blanc scaled without an alpen-
stock. The coral depths of the ocean ex-
plored without diving bell. The noun
tains unbarred and opened without Sir
Humphrey Davy's safety lamp.
What are our departed friends, who
found their chief joy in studying, doing
nowT Studying yet, but instead of a
few thousand volumes on few shelves,
all the volumes of the universe open be-
fore them-geologic, ornithologic, con-
chologic, botanic, astronomic, philo-
sophie. No more need of Leyden jars,
or voltaic piles, or electric batteries,
standing as they do face to face with the
facts of the universe.
What are the historians doing now?
Studying history yet, but not the history
OF rev centuries of our planet only, but
the history of the eternities-whole mil
lenniums before Xenophon, or Herodo-
dotus, or Moses, or Adam was born.
History of one world, history of all
worlds.
What are our departed astronomers
doing? Studying astronomy yet, but not
through the dull lens of earthly observa-
tory, but with one stroke of wing going
right out to Jupiter and Mars, and Mer-
curry and Saturn, and Orion and the
PleiadesE overtaking and passing swift
est comet in their flight. HerscheI died
a Christian. Have you any doubt about
what Herschel is doing? Isaac Newton
died Christian. Have you any doubt
about what Isaac Newton is doing? Jo-
seph Henry died Christian. Have you
any doubt about what Joseph Henry is
doings They were in discussion, all these
astronomers of earth, about what the au-
rora borealis was, and none of them
could guess. They know now; they have
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